The Scriptures 1998

John 6:57-71 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

57. “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me shall live because of Me.

58. “This is the bread which came down out of the heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread shall live forever.”

59. He said this in a congregation, teaching in Kephar Naḥum.

60. Therefore many of His taught ones having heard, said, “This word is hard, who is able to hear it?”

61. But יהושע knowing within Himself that His taught ones were grumbling about this, said to them, “Does this make you stumble?

62. “What if you see the Son of Aḏam going up where He was before?

63. “It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh does not profit at all. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and are life.

64. “But there are some of you who do not believe.” For יהושע knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would deliver Him up.

65. And He said, “Because of this I have said to you that no one is able to come to Me unless it has been given to him by My Father.”

66. From then on many of His taught ones withdrew and were not walking with Him any more.

67. יהושע therefore said to the twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?”

68. Then Shim‛on Kĕpha answered Him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You possess words of everlasting life.

69. “And we have believed, and we know that You are the Messiah, the Son of the living Elohim.”

70. יהושע answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

71. He was now speaking of Yehuḏah from Qerioth, the son of Shim‛on, for he, one of the twelve, was about to deliver Him up.